EARLY TIMESREPORT
JAMMU, June 9: The Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC) and Soan Kashmir Front (SKF) continued its protest sit-in on 204th day at Jagti township under the leadership of president Shadi Lal Pandita.
Addressing the protesters, Shadi Lal Pandita said that inflation has made life difficult for relief holders while there is hardly any respite for them, adding that the government should increase the monthly cash assistance of Kashmiri migrant relief holders from Rs 13,000 to Rs 25,000 as soon as possible. Pandita said that a package of at least 5,000 posts should be announced for those Kashmiri migrant youth who have matriculated with great difficulty due to deportation and poverty who do not appear in the merit lists. He said that the 5,000 posts for such unemployed youth should be announced as soon as possible so that the lives of such poor families of unemployed youth can be saved.
Pandita said that a government job should be given in those houses in which no educated unemployed youth has got a government employment till date.
He said for permanent rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir Valley the Government should set up three Satellite townships in three districts of Baramulla, Srinagar and Anantnag.
Those who participated in the protest sit-in included Ravinder Koul, M L Razdan, Rakesh Ambardar, Sunil Koul, Raj Kumar Bhat, Rakesh Tickoo, Vinod Bhat, Kamal Pandita, Charanjeet Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Ramesh Suri and several others. |
